An inadequate diet can cause a number of illnesses with some them posing major threats for humanity. Poor largely originates from behavioral and social issues rather than environmental factors. With simulation being grand tool to analyze address behavior issues, relatively few studies focus on computational modeling nutrition at behavioural level. Furthermore, we have overviewed several popular...

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OBJECTIVE Male bodybuilders (MBB) exhibit more severe body dissatisfaction, bulimic eating behaviour, and negative psychological characteristics, compared with male athletic and nonathletic control subjects, but few studies have directly compared MBB and men with eating disorders. This study compared men with bulimia nervosa (MBN), competitive male bodybuilders (CMBB), and recreational male bod...

Treatment for anorexia nervosa has changed little from that described by Gull over a century ago. To focus merely on symptomatic relief from "not eating," as occurs with some forms of hospital care, is primitive. The evidence base to guide treatment is thin. Nevertheless, there is hope that better understanding of the causes and maintaining factors may translate into more sophisticated treatmen...

Buprenorphine is a partial mu, kappa agonist that has been shown to influence spontaneous behaviour in animals. Previously, we have demonstrated significant differences in the analgesic response to buprenorphine between the August Copenhagen Irish (ACI)/SegHsd and the Brown Norway (BN)/RijHsd inbred rat strains. The purpose of this study was to determine whether these strains also differed in t...

Emotional well-being affects eating behaviour, whether making an individual eat less or more than they normally do. This paper aimed to compare behaviour between normal and overweight female undergraduate students in response positive negative emotions. cross-sectional study was conducted among 166 university students. Data collection involved the assessments of participants’ anthropometric mea...